Do centennial tree-ring and stable isotope trends of Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Rupr. indicate increasing water shortage in the Siberian north?

Oecologia

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 825-835

  Sidorova, Olga Vladimirovna ^a,b   Siegwolf, Rolf T W ^b   Saurer, Matthias ^b   Shashkin, Alexander V ^a   Knorre, Anastasia A ^a,c   Prokushkin, Anatoliy S ^a   Vaganov, Eugene A ^a,c   Kirdyanov, Alexander V ^a  

^a SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Climatic changes; Stable carbon isotope ratio; Stable oxygen isotope ratio; Tree ring width; Tura

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CELLULOSE; OXYGEN; RAIN; WATER;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CELLULOSE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STABLE ISOTOPE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TREE RING; VAPOR PRESSURE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LARIX; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TIME; WOOD;

CARBON ISOTOPES; CELLULOSE; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; LARIX; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; RAIN; SIBERIA; TIME FACTORS; WATER; WOOD;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

LARIX; LARIX GMELINII; TURA;

EID: 70349484418     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1411-0     Document Type: Article

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